At a funeral of one Ldt. Lutara in Acholi district Mr. Museveni characteristically crowed: Amin_ruled_me_for_two_days. Oh! How impressive! Implicitly all the Acholi who perished in the Amin regime were fools who could not compare to him. And then to add insult to injury, Mr. Onek, a minister with roots in Acholi lectured the Acholi that they misunderstand Museveni, and they should take up the so-called Museveni’s development plan for the region.
Onek, what do we misunderstand? This is a man who lauded an NRA military operation in Acholiland with this mocking statement: We massacred them. This is a man who refused to declare the Acholi region a disaster area even when displaced residents were dying by the thousands from simple diseases due to overcrowding in his concentration camps. What don’t we understand?
The Acholi like everyone else want development. But development is not going to be by giving away large swaths of land for dubious enterprises. Acholi land, a precious resource, should be well managed for the benefit of generations to come. Blood of our ancestors has been shed and their bones litter this land. Whoever, either works with us for mutual benefits, or against us with dire consequences.
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